Balder Gloor

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Baldur Roland Peter Gloor (born March 30, 1932 in Madrid ) is a Swiss ophthalmologist and former head of the University Eye Clinic Basel and former director of the University Eye Clinic Zurich.

Life

Career

Gloor is a citizen of Basel and grew up in Solothurn and Magglingen . The name Baldur was registered in Madrid when he was born, although his name was Balder and is called that in everyday life. From 1951 to 1958 he studied medicine in Bern and received his doctorate with a thesis on "The artistic staff of Albrecht von Haller ". He completed his years as an assistant doctor in the subjects of pathology, internal medicine and from 1963 to 1967 in ophthalmology, in which he specialized. From 1967 to 1969, Balder Gloor was a Fight for Sight Fellow with Bernard Becker at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1969 to 1974 he worked as a senior physician and deputy director of the University Eye Clinic in Bern. In 1974 he became professor and head of the University Eye Clinic in Basel, where he introduced Switzerland's first fully organized specialist training course. In 1985 he moved to Zurich University Eye Clinic as director, which he headed until his retirement in 2000. He was dean of the respective medical faculties, 1979/80 at the University of Basel and 1992 to 1994 at the University of Zurich .

further activities

Balder Gloor was involved in public relations in his field. He was a member, board member and president of numerous research and professional societies, so from 1994 to 2000 on the board of the "International Federation of Ophthalmological Societies" and the "International Council of Ophthalmology" as well as in the World Association of National Ophthalmological Societies, where he was responsible for reorganization and changes of the articles of association. He was also a member and board member of Academia Ophthalmologica internationalis, founding member of the European Academy of Ophthalmology and from 1979 to 1981 President of the Swiss Ophthalmological Society (SOG). In journalism he worked as co-editor of the clinical monthly papers for ophthalmology, as editor of the «Bücherei des Augenärtes» and reviewer for the magazines Graefes Archiv, Der Ophthalmologe, Klin Mbl Augenheilkunde, Surv. Ophthalmology, European J. Ophthalmology.

After retirement

After his retirement, Gloor worked full-time until 2007 for the fellowship program he founded for the further training of ophthalmologists from the third world in the industrialized countries , in which more than 1,000 ophthalmologists have participated since then. From 2013 to 2017, Balder Gloor processed the estate of his grandfather Arthur Gloor-Largiadèr (1869 to 1954), who was the first ophthalmologist in Solothurn. In his practice at the Bürgerspital Solothurn, Arthur Gloor meticulously recorded the eye diseases of 45,000 patients in the form of medical histories and drawings between 1899 and 1954. His grandson Balder Gloor published an extensive book on this and the history of ophthalmology in the first half of the 20th century.

research

In his research work, Balder Gloor succeeded in demonstrating cell division activities in Müllerian supporting cells, pigment epithelial cells and corneal endothelial cells. He carried out the first investigations into the transport of fluid from the space between the neuroretina and the pigment epithelium using radioactive substances. And he was able to prove, among other things, which cells and which mechanisms are responsible for the occasional pathological cell proliferation on the retina and in the vitreous humor after an operation to detach the retina. In the case of glaucoma, he showed that the earliest symptoms are not to be found in the restriction of the field of vision - "this is already the beginning of the end" - but in changes in the optic nerve. In addition, Balder Gloor was one of the first to perform stem cell transplants after burns to the cornea.

Awards and honors (selection)

  • 1967–69 Fight for Sight Fellowship Award
  • 1968 Theodor-Axenfeld Prize
  • 1999 Award from the Marfan Foundation Switzerland
  • 2005 Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International
  • 2010 Honorary Life Member of the Board of the International Council of Ophthalmology
  • 2012 honorary member of the Julius Hirschberg Society
  • 2015 honorary member of the Swiss Ophthalmological Society

Publications (selection)

  • The artistic staff of Albrecht v. Haller . Dissertation. Berner Contributions to the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences No. 15. Haupt, Bern, 1958.
  • with ML Gloor, B. Daicker, J. Meszaros. Healing of mechanical lesions of the corneal endothelium in rabbits and rhesus monkeys. Autoradiographic examinations on the flat specimen. In: Naumann, Gloor ed .: Wound healing of the eye and its complications. JF Bergmann, Munich 1980.
  • with L. Rokos, R. Leuenberger. Removal of 13lJ hippuric acid and 22Na from the retroretinal space with experimental arhegmatogenic retinal detachment. In: Graefes Arch. Ophthal. 197: 107 117, 1975.
  • as edited by J. Flammer, A. Glowazki, G. Krieglstein Automatic Perimetrie. Ophthalmologist's Library, Vol. 110, 1987.
  • as publisher Glaucoma surgery in detail. Vol. 132/1994. Library of the ophthalmologist, supplements to the "Clinical Monthly Papers for Ophthalmology", Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1994.
  • Dangers of the 360 ​​° thread trabeculotomy. In: Der Ophthalmologe: 100-103, 1998.
  • Obituary for Dr. Bernard Becker. In: Klin Monthly Eye Healing 2013: 230, 1-2N 320.
  • Ophthalmology from 1899 to 1954 - lived and drawn. The estate of Dr. med. Arthur Gloor-Largiadèr. Basel 2017.
  • From Magglingen to Zurich. Memories, autobiographies and episodes. In: Ophta 4, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Basel. Annual reports 1979 and 1980, in the State Archives Basel-Stadt
  2. ^ University of Zurich. Annual reports 1992/93 and 1993/94, in the UZH archive, University of Zurich
  3. ↑ Naumann GOH, Gloor, P., Watson PG: International Ophthalmology, Hassfurter Medienpartner GmbH, KK, ISBN 978-3-00-031103-1 .2010.
  4. ^ Balder P. Gloor: The Development of the Statutes of the Congress, of the International Council (ICO) and of the International Federation of Ophthalmological Societies (IFOS) 1862-2010. In Naumann GOH, Gloor, P., Watson PG: International Ophthalmology, Hassfurter Medienpartner GmbH, KK, ISBN 978-3-00-031103-1 .2010 P.89-134.
  5. ↑ Balder P. Gloor: The IFOS / ICO - Three Months Fellowship. In: Naumann GOH, Gloor, P., Watson PG: International Ophthalmology, Hassfurter Medienpartner GmbH, KK, ISBN 978-3-00-031103-1 .2010 P.154-166
  6. ↑ Balder P. Gloor. Ophthalmology from 1899 to 1954, lived and drawn. The estate of Dr. med. Arthur Gloor-Largiadèr. Basel 2017.
  7. ↑ Gloor B., M.-L. Gloor, B. Daicker, J. Meszaros: Healing of mechanical lesions of the corneal endothelium in rabbits and rhesus monkeys. Autoradiographic examinations on the flat specimen. In: Naumann, Gloor ed .: Wound healing of the eye and its complications. JF Bergmann, Munich (1980).
  8. ↑ Gloor BP, L. Rokos, R. Leuenberger: Removal of 13lJ-hippuric acid and 22Na from the retroretinal space in experimental arhegmatogenic retinal detachment. Graefes Arch. Ophthal. 197: 107-117 (1975).
  9. ↑ Gloor B.,: Cell proliferation, scarring and pigmentation after light coagulation (rabbit experiments). Clin. Mbl. Ophthalmology. 154: 633-648 (1969).
  10. ↑ https://saez.ch/de/article/doi/bms.2017.05604/ Schweizerische Ärztezeitung 2017; 98 (19): 616-618.
personal data
SURNAME Gloor, Balder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gloor, Baldur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid